Tea Cakes—II
2 lbs. flour
¹⁄₂ tea-spoon salt
¹⁄₄ lb. lard
1 egg
Yeast the size of a walnut
Milk
Mix the salt with the flour and then rub the lard thoroughly into it. Beat the egg well and stir the yeast into it. Add to the flour with enough milk to make a paste, knead well. Let it rise for a couple of hours in a warm place. Form it into round cakes on tins. Let them rise for twenty minutes and bake from quarter to half-an-hour.
Tea Cakes—III
1 lb. flour
1 pint milk
2 eggs
¹⁄₂ lb. sugar
2 table-spoons baking powder
Mix and sift the dry ingredients together. Add the milk with which the well-beaten eggs have been mixed and a little salt. Bake in flat round tins.
*Tea Cakes made with Self-raising Flour
2 cups self-raising flour
1 table-spoon butter
Milk or cream
Rub the butter well into the flour, add a little salt. Make it into a dough with a little milk or sour cream. Roll out. Cut into small rounds. Bake in a quick oven. Split open, butter and serve at once.